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"Shifty is Curtis at his most atmospheric, even surrealist. Getting lost in his late-capitalist video collages can feel like a shot to the heart, which is one way of saying his work often resembles the wild detours of Guy Debord and his Dada forebears. While the occasional titles describe what is happening, they feel more like bookends than breadcrumbs.
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His new five-part documentary is a kind of fairy-tale fever dream of capitalist realism, whose broad contours will be familiar to readers of Mark Fisher and Jacobin. The story begins with the earthquake of Thatcherism. We watch as the Iron Lady attempts to conjure national cohesion from a make-believe version of Britain’s imperial past, even as she elevates self-interest and private ambition to the level of civic virtue. What follows is a slow-motion fragmentation: scandals metastasize into generalized social paranoia, sensationalist media narratives erode institutional trust, and liberal elites, feeling betrayed by the newly Tory-voting working classes, retreat into the cultural capital of biennales, book prizes, and conceptual art. Industrial infrastructure is sold off for pennies on the pound as the government hands the reins of interest rates to unelected bankers. Unemployment, skinheads, check-cashing stores, and Netto discount supermarkets sprout like wild thyme across the English heather. Politicians end up believing the worst about themselves and begin abdicating responsibility. A cash-strapped Gordon Brown attempts early versions of public-private partnerships, indebting the government to private finance for the very services it had only just recently provided. In the background are the twin engines of finance and technology: unaccountable, placeless, and entirely prepared to occupy the vacuum left by political withdrawal."

jacobin.com/2025/07/adam-curti

jacobin.comIn Shifty, Adam Curtis Charts the UK’s UnravelingDirector Adam Curtis’s latest BBC docuseries, Shifty, follows Britain’s late 20th-century retreat into make-believe as managed decline tears everything apart. It’s the familiar Curtis aesthetic, but still as powerful and haunting as ever.

C'est dingue qu'une petite boite de moins de dix personnes comme The Designers Republic a juste défini la culture Y2K (plus précisément le mouvement Vectorheart), ça me rappelle mon enfance avec tous ces sites tendances quand Flash Player est sorti haha
#Design #annees90 #y2k

Having "survived" the Y2K "catastrophe" 😉, I hadn't heard of the Year 2038 problem yet…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_203

Info for those not old enough to have (consciously) experienced the Y2K event:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_200

➡️ Respect to all IT people who worked hard to solve the real Y2K issues during the annoying hype leading up to the event, which attracted profiteers abusing the fears.

en.wikipedia.orgYear 2038 problem - Wikipedia
#Y2K#tech#technology

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: What was life in Chicago like in 2000? . “From January to December that year, more than 200 photographers, videographers and journalists captured moments like these to create a time capsule of life in Chicago at the turn of the millennium. The project, called CITY 2000, resulted in more than 500,000 images and nearly 800 audio and video recordings… […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/05/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-what-was-life-in-chicago-like-in-2000/

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@TomWellborn
I was freelancing in I.T. in the years prior to #Y2K.

Every company was lousy w/a dozen or two 20-something tech bros. And the competition for top talent had companies offering all kinds of perks that would appeal to immature male computer geeks:

Remote control cars to play with on your break. Foosball tables. Vending machines stocked with ultra-high caffeine sodas (pre-Red Bull.)

#Musk's hacker goons reminds me an awful lot of those days. I'd NEVER trust them w/sensitive data.